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1684 London Gaz. No. 1969/4 Lost out of the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Lodgings..a little strong Box with several things in it.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 16 She would rob her Father's strong Box, for Money to give the young Fellows that she was fond of.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 196 I ask'd her for my Money; and she said it was above in her strong Box.

1782 E. Pendleton Let. 22 Apr. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 392 Ambler is our Treasurer in the room of Colonel Brooke—empty as the strong Box is I am told there was a warm contest for this Office.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xi, in Writings I. 105 Safe as his parchments in his strong-box.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 189 These are they who make England that strongbox and museum it is.

1872 H. W. Longfellow Cobbler of Hagenau in Three Bks. Song i. 36 A heavy strong-box..Received, with a melodious sound, The coin that purchased Paradise.

1935 G. Santayana Last Puritan i. iii. 43 There was a large desk, supporting an iron strongbox filled with old letters and documents.

1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) iii. 56 The turtle can close up the neckline and limb apertures, sealing its entire body into a nearly impregnable strongbox.

2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 v. 799 She got up and opened a metal cabinet, in the lower part of which was a little strongbox.